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My Baby

by Zach Jones My baby’s favorite book is television.  Cheap porn is the best thing she’s ever read.  Like me, she was raised on the best diet:  Bullshit, booze, and Wonder Bread.  Her hair is supernatural.  A smile of ultra bleach.   When we get lucky, the neighborhood knows,  ’Cause we paint the town with my bloody nose.   I feel commercial.  I feel hardcore.  I feel American.   Drive-thru parasite.   Supermarket sloth. 

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The Penmen Profile: Fiction Writer Julie Buntin

by Rebecca LeBoeuf Julie Buntin debuted her first book, “Marlena: A Novel,” in April. Buntin explores weighty topics including love, addiction and loss in the lives of two teenage girls. “‘Marlena’ slayed me,” bestseller Anton DiSclafani said in response to the book. “Gorgeously written, with a sense of place so…

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Author Michael Alden Wants You to Get More

by Pamme Boutselis New author Michael Alden is the CEO and founder of Blue Vase Marketing. He has taken the lessons learned in his own hardscrabble climb to success and developed a book to help others move forward in their own lives. Alden’s book, “Ask More, Get More,” will be…

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